What is Dysgraphia? Not just a Handwriting problem. How you can fix it.
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The only upside to having Dysgraphia is that I can read other people’s bad hand writing.
Where can I learn this power?
Ska Pilgrim same with both comments
Ska Pilgrim yep
Ryan Hilliker it’s disorder not a power
Not for me because I’m dyslexic too
I STILL remember in 1st grade. I hadn't been diagnosed with dyslexia or ADHD, but I couldn't keep up with all of the writing we had to do. I remember the teacher said, "if you don't finish writing in time, you cannot go out to recess". I was so panicked!! I couldn't finish but wanted to be done so bad. So....when she said for everyone to turn in what we were writing, I went up to her desk, erased my name from my paper and put it in the pile. I then erased someone else's name from their paper and put my name on it. Of course....my handwriting was EXTREMELY faint (always got in trouble for that) and not good looking. So before we went outside she saw it and I still had to stay inside. Moral of the story....learn someone else's handwriting so you can change their name and the teacher can't tell. haha jk. Fortunately I made better choices after that incident.
Same but I have still not been diagnosed yet
Thanks for the chuckle 😅
Oof yeah
When I was in first grade my handwriting was soo bad the teacher couldn’t read it and kept marking me down and giving me a gold star every time it was legible just diagnosed with ADD and dysgraphia
Wow! My son was diagnosed with that. Are u guys able to write proper now? What did u do to be able to write proper? What other difficulties do u face besides writing? Thanks
I hate having dysgraphia, not a lot of my teachers know about it and sucks that it only effects my writing, but I can draw really well
Kai/Flicker Lolwolfs Ok, maybe that's the why you hate it. I have also dysgraphia (I use T9 for this answer to correct my spelling) Well, I from the Czech Republic and when I visited my primary school, I had also special subject to minimize my problems (and it was also fun for me) You should speak about it with your teachers. They can help you, especially your language's teacher, but also another teachers can give you more time and so,... For example: I had more time to write my Maturita's essays (in Czech and in German).
Does it or did it affect your ability to learn to read in elementary school?
No, I had and have this problems only, when I write. By the way, I DID LOVE reading in my elementary school. But I think, your question is gut, some people have problems with both.
Me too , im 37 now,and my life sucks. I wish more people had known about it back then when i was kid
Kai/Flicker Lolwolfs Me too. Wow
I have dysgraphia and I found out in 4th grade. It was really hard for me to write and I wasn't as fast as other kids. When I looked at other kids papers I saw how much they could write compared to me. Btw I am no cheat and I have never cheated before. I now have gotten so much better at writing but I am still not perfect. I still can't spell everything right now. How ever I am extremely smart according to test my school has done on me.
Lunameanstars Draws nice i have adhd , dyslexia , dysgraphia and social anxiety and i have bad social skills but i can writhe realy nice but it takes like 10 years to writhe one row so i dont realy bother how it looks too much i can read it and thats all it matters xd almost every teacher says my handwrithing is shit so ya
I found out in preschool
I have dysgraphia and ADHD but I'm good at reading and drawing also in fine when whiting on a laptop that's how I do my work at school
Same I have I ADHD and dysgraphia but my teachers don't care they just tell me to try harder and stop being lazy one time I had to re right a entire test beacause my teach couldn't understand it I secretly raged inside.
Me too, but apparently I have dysgraphia
@@faulty7337 yo fuck those teachers god damn, I fucking hate teachers like that.
I've never been the best when it came to drawings, sometimes often have trouble spelling especially long words too. My problem is my words are hard to read, can be too big on the lines and definitely have trouble keeping them placed leveled on the same sentence. My grammar has gotten alot better over the years like mastering capitals, Camas, apostrophes and punctuation. My spelling I still have trouble with, but with the use of computers and smartphones thank God make things so much easier. My drawing skills on the other hand just completely make my goals on always wanting to be (for example) an animator, feel impossible. But who said it was? I'm hoping in the future I can master it with practice. I was never diagnosed, nor know whether or not I've got disgraphia going on, but this seems just about right after looking up some images of disgraphic hand writing. What I know for a fact is most likely I'm OCD. I'm always getting frustrated when having to write long stories on school or such places with long paper work and not online, so I'm arguing with myself in my head to where I'm erasing and rewriting and erasing and rewriting. It takes alot of time away from me doing that too.
I have adhd dysgraphia but I’m not good at reading or riting I’m 11 years old
I’m 22 years old and still can’t write or even hold a pen without hurting my wrist.
Please explain me in detail , actually I am struggling with writing skills,I am not able to write letters properly Like R ,i struggle to write it with holding pen with harsh grip
I am suffering from these problems since I am in class 1 till now in university
Please help me ,my parents never understand me ...I am not able to write small e properly ..
Went to a psychologist when I was 20 and found out I was in the top 1% in Australia for dysgraphia and the worst my psych had seen, apparently Most in my position don’t finish year 10, nowadays I work doctors clinic doing pre-consultants. Don’t let your disadvantages stop you..
I can relate! Just recently got tested and diagnosed with dysgraphia, but my grades have always been in the high 80s to 90s. It's just that everything takes so much more damn time, effort, and energy when it comes to writing, and I'm always the last to finish, ever since. I thankfully was able to figure out how to cope and think of strategies to help, though it's still always a struggle, but yes! Don't let your disadvantages stop you.
@@akinas4903yess, I was a C grade student basically barely passing, but i can perform or speak really well just written assesy was not my style hehe
@@MegaChickenpower I'm not sure if I have dysgraphia but from 2 months I am unable to write properly
Is it possible that I can have dysgraphia after 10 years of writing ?
Kindly give me the answer
I'm very depressed, your reply can help a lot
Thanks!
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I’m 26 now and have always had this condition except never diagnosed as a child. I didn’t have learning issues in any other areas other than handwriting. I had handwriting classes for hours, the whole lot but still even as an adult when I write by hand I can barely read my own writing. I also have no issues with spelling, grammar and sentence structure. When writing though without noticing I miss letters when spelling, write words out of order etc. I was punished as a child for my writing but have been fortunate as an adult in this age that I barely need to handwrite anything. All my work is done on a computer and I have no issue typing. When I have to fill out a form and I have no one with me to write for me it gives me so much anxiety still
I didn't mirror letters, but had very horrible handwriting and cursive as a child...
Printing and writing often cramped.my hand and felt laborious.
Until I started writing in my other language, French, around age 11. For some reason, when I wrote in French, it came out much, much nicer,
and over time, I was able to make my English writing look like my French.
I don't know if it had to do with how I mentally processed or felt about the two languages or what;
It was very strange.
My mother had to bring a type writer into school
Man I hate inheritance
I’m so glad to know there are other people like this I work as a security guard and this is very frustrating to deal with being we have to write incident reports all the time I find myself balling the paper up and starting over several times
Lmao all my high school teachers and most middle school teachers when they found out I had dysgraphia they just told me "write better" everytime I'd shout at them "OH WOW WHY DIDNT I THINK OF THAT... IM CURED ALL THOSE YEAR'S TRYING TO FIX MY WRITING!" Wanted to slap em
Same! Also, love the name! One year I had a BITCH OF AN ENGLISH TEACHER that didn't use ANYTHING to check spelling or anything for paper reviews and went with her "gut"! I wrote the most brilliant thing in my school career, but she had ONE ISSUE! She did NOT recognize one, semi-dated, but NOT fully phased out word in English celled "unbeknownst"! I had a feeling she might have issues with my paper, the typical lack of ideas, dysgraphia "word vomit/gobbledygook", etcetera, but THAT WAS HER ONLY ONE! Claimed, I used a "Made up word, giving me a ZERO FOR IT, and if I did NOT REWRITE EVERYTHING I WOULD FAIL SPRING FINALS!" Well, unbeknownst to her, I had a contingency due to how she was! I secretly printed two copies and of course she wouldn't have known better, grabbed my bag (which wasn't allowed in the PC room during exams shoved in an extra copy while she wasn't looking and shoved my backpack so close to my desk (it was old, so I didn't care if it got dirty!), no one would know! I was so furious that I I some how was able to keep my cool and say, "Yes, Ms. Turner, I'll redo it!" Without going ballistic and just a heavy, annoyed sigh! Luckily, I was given the marked copy back and so my, "This lady needs her brain checked feelings!", that would NOT go away had more leverage! I say "leverage", since after English was lunch, while I was thankful that it was NOT DUE TO OVERALL INCOHERENCE OF MY WORK, technically in a way it was as the word was 2 or 3 lines into the 3rd or 4th page of the 6 page essay! So, I skipped lunch and headed to the principal that actually burst out laughing about it! She grabbed her dictionary, thesaurus, pulled up the two word processing programs we had at the time and the search engine! All with it coming up as a word! My next class was an elective or gym, sadly I think it was woodshop and it was the ONE CLASS I loved more than any other I have ever taken! They brought me what ever food they could scrounge up from the cafeteria, thankfully it was a PB&J, apple and milk, so it helped keep me a bit quite, and called her in! As the principal was her senior, she could NOT ignore her about this and was proved WRONG! I was called back in and she was "made to apologize"! She kept side eyeing me for the rest of the year! Next year, I heard a rumor a teacher had "left/ been fired" and I didn't see her again! Honestly though, if you teach ANYTHING, (especially English!), and are unsure of a word that is used, THEN USE THE FUCKING DICTIONARY! That is what ANY SANE PERSON would do!
I have Dyslexia and Dysgraphia,and every elementary teach I had was determined to change my writing,but all failed.
That how I was all the way up through HS and that was 30 years ago. Back than they didn't know or have a name for what I had.
Same
I both have this with aspergers
I feel so much is explained to even why as an adult my handwriting are still like that of a toddlers
I have all of that aswell but i Might also have dyscalculia but im not diagnosed with that
Thankyou so much! I have to write an essay about it and present it, and this was very helpful.
This helped me learn more about my disorder and I can thank you enough for that. I have always thought I have been the problem and that I was the thing that needed to change. Writing is one of my biggest passions and when I found I have a disorder that would affect my writing I was so scared. But luckily for me I'm homeshooled so my mom is my teacher and she can help me right and I can go at my own speed and that's helps me so much.
Oh great. I'm assuming from your title, that you are fully able to completely repair this problem that I've known about for a decade.
Highly useful video. My appreciations. Kindly upload more videos for the benefit of special children.
I recall my teachers would say i was writing bad on purpose and give me bad grades because of it. I tried to get help for it but was denied because in France (yeah i'm French) if you are not blind/deaf/unable to move,they don't care and won't help you. I applied for a special help in school,never got any answers.
I hear you. I'm looking at these videos because I'm trying to help a neighbour kid who has serious problems. He is smart, but his handwriting looks tortured, like someone doing poorly in Grade one. He is in middle school.
“There are therapies” is like all she said about “what to do”. Keyboard, printer, speech to text… that’s how you actually help ppl w/ dysgraphia write (I’m an adults w/ dysgraphia and I’m writing just fine on my phone rn)
I was told that I had dysgraphia, but I feel that my handwriting is still neat enough. It is just rather inconsistent (it can go from cursive to rounded to long letters in one paragraph). But I feel that I can’t express myself in words well. Not just in writing, but also when speaking. So I’m not sure if I do have dysgraphia or not.
Maekayla Lee my writing is pretty neat but I write reallllly slow!!!
thanks i have dysgraphia now i use a laptop in school and it helps so much i also have hypernovinity sorry if i couldent spell that well
Thanks so much for this video... My son has dysgraphia and I'm glad someone is shining a light on this issue.
Saywat Huh
That's disgusting you should've never done that in the first place, he's 6 for crying out loud you should not be a parent. Also looks like you could do with a few spelling lessons yourself, any wonder where your son gets it from? Also while you're at it why don't you take anger management and parenting classes because you need serious help.
Xloxbs Huh yeah, you really shouldn't be a parent. Consider taking some anger management classes. Based on my experiences, things that happen when you are young affects your whole life.
Mariajen Xxz ff
My dysgraphia is so bad I started typing my notes in the 7th grade in 2003. I didn’t discover it was a thing until the 2010s. I was diagnosed with adhd early but I only knew about dyslexia at the time, because I was excellent at reading I never knew I could have a different version of the disorder.
Thank you for your video♥️
I never had the chance to go school when I was growing up,im 31 years old now and have struggled with what I believe to be disgraphia my whole life,I have such a hard time writing anything down on paper and can't hold words in my head more than one at a time as an image for more than a few min.
I'm looking for help online because I want to learn more about what's going on with me,I always thought it was because I was never taught to write but after spending years trying to write I've come to the conclusion that it's something else.
When I was young I always relied on typing because I could not write so as far as written expression goes this is the best I can do and it's only because I've been typing for 23 years and spell checkers help out a lot
I struggled all the way through school with my work teachers made fun of my writing how slow and messy it was always struggled with my work im 29 now and only figured out i have this today! Such a relief that it was never my fault and im not the only one
I can write really fast but the downside is my writing is basicly alien to other people and is hard even for me to read it.
relatable
I had undiagnosed dysgraphia all throughout school and college, a great doctor I have now great guy can diagnose anything and know exactly what to do spotted it on a form I wrote even though I've had years to figure out how to write to roughly the same as an average 10 year old
my form was purely a word and letter structural issue, for some reason I was great at writing numbers so maths wasn't an issue
Learning to type is the GREATEST thing ever. I am terrible at writing on paper. My handwriting is bad (according to my sign artist wife) and I have to put things in different areas, as a rough draft, then I add and organize everything as needed. Typing makes this process SO much faster. I can easily go down a few lines, add a thought or sentence...then I can put it all together in one large paper/thought/idea. I actually have dyslexia and ADHD, and not sure about dysgraphia. I remember when I was in college, I wrote a late night essay and turned it in around 5am. I went to class at 9am and my teacher asked me to review it before she grades it. I looked at it and though I still had my ideas of what it should have said, my essay looked like a rough draft. It was TERRIBLE. Perhaps because of fatigue...but I have never written such a horrible paper! So I added everything I somehow forgot to add the first time and got an A or B on the paper.
On another note, I remember I was in a business speech class. We had to stand in front of the class and speak about a company for exactly 7 minutes. I chose Samsung because I had recently returned from living a year in South Korea (where everyone wanted and loved to speak English because it was their chance to use what they had learned in schools). I decided to "time" the slides with my speech instead of using the clicker (only using cards that each had 2 or 3 words on them) because that perfected the 7 minutes. It worked perfectly, except for 1 hiccup that I corrected by talking REALLY fast to catch up. Unfortunately I got a B because I had forgotten that we were supposed to submit the speech and slides a day before we were to speak (instant -10 points). :/ Overall I was a C average anyway. :) I graduated with a BBA in Marketing.
at the age of 29 i found out this, well... i already accept my messy hand writing.
but im still wondering how other can write so neat and beautiful. They make it so easy....
yup nobody believed its a condition all those years of bully for not having good writing
Its nice to read some comments here, as my child is 9 and struggles with writing, but is really bright, smart and reads very well. When i did a review before my home ed officer came to visit us end of this school year, i could see my child has made little progress with her writing, punctuation is not there at all, and she struggles and tires. She writes neat after trying so hard but cant spell so much and writes back to front, upside down in cases. She can read so she sees when its not right.
I looked up what might be the problem as theres some slow and difficulties she has doing certain things, so i put 2 and 2 together and found this disorder.
Its helpful to know there are things that can be done to relieve some of the frustration. But home schooling has made this less frustrating. I could only imagine how hard this would make her life in school with those who dont understand what this is.
How about as an adult?
Good can yu suggest some tips
I haven’t been diagnosed with anything but I have always been a lot slower than everyone else in my class and how i kept my grades up is taking all the work i couldn’t finish in that amount of time and stay up past midnight to finish and breakdown crying when i couldn’t finish t because i was so scared that the teachers would yell at me and start panicking and go to bed being so stressed. In 6th grade i stopped having so much homework because most of the time we just did notes in class or things in groups. But there were still problems, I would either get distracted, overwhelmed, or couldn’t keep up when writing because i was so slow when we did notes and i was also slow doing things with others and id space out when we were doing something because i didn’t talk much and when i tried to help out i just looked stupid because i was slower than then when doing things. Then during test and there were writing questions i took a long time because i kept rewriting because it was hard to put what was in my head into a sentence and onto paper. I did pass though with good grades, I did get a c in math because i’m terrible at it but i mama begs to get it to a b. In 7th grade my grades began to flop because i had attention problems in math and it felt like the teacher was going too fast and i couldn’t keep up with the notes even though everyone else seemed to be just as fast but i took forever. I barley last 7th grade and now i’m in 8th grade and i’m failing computer class because we do step by steps and i usually get behind and i’m too scared to speak up to ask a question because i don’t want everyone else to think i’m stupid. Sometimes the meetings are recorded but i can’t find the motivation to do them, but that’s just my fault because i’m lazy. I find it difficult to sleep because i even when i’m tired sometimes i just can’t fall asleep then i’ll get worried about random things and that will keep me up all night and then i’ll fall asleep during meetings so that’s not good. Ok let’s rewind a bit, in 5th grade i started playing with people online and i’d always get corrected for my spelling. I never payed attention to my spelling the more and more people point it out I start to realize how bad i am at spelling. I’m always getting corrected by my online friends still and i have just came to the conclusion that i’m stupid and poking fun at myself is the best way to not get hurt by t even though it hurts a lot. I used to get good grades but now i feel like a failure and that i disappointed everyone and myself. I do realize there are other problems in the world but it hurts
You're not stupid don't say that, you most likely have dysgraphia, tell your parents so they can get you tested after that your teachers will have to accommodate you. This problem is not about being dumb, is a writing problem, don't let this lower your self esteem you are ok.
What you're saying is also ringing potential dyslexia and potential ADHD bells as well, and possibly others. You are not stupid. You are not lazy. It sounds like there's a lot going on under the surface that needs answers and appropriate accommodations. So if you haven't already, talk to your parents, let them know what's going on so they can get you tested.
I had a test for this at university and did basically an IQ test where I scored quite above average and some other tests including spelling and verbal communication where I scored very highly but my handwriting was way below average and was diagnosed with dysgraphia and now I get extra time if I have to handwrite a test and not if I can type it. Is this normal for people with dysgraphia
I don't know about the testing part, but it always takes me forever to handwrite something if someone else is going to need to be able to read it, because writing neatly takes me forever and is exhausting (and also really hurts my wrist - I partially dislocated it in 9th grade and it has never been the same since). Also don't know about extra time specifically for it, though it makes perfect sense. I've never been diagnosed with it, but I'm 99.99999% sure I have it (I could never hold the pencil "correctly" ever since kindergarten, and my handwriting has always been messy ever since 1st grade, despite always being an excellent speller and never having trouble forming letters), and the tipping point for me came when I was in college: for one of our finals, we had to hand write a full 6-page essay... in pen...; I managed to do it, but my professor couldn't read a single word of it (he ended up having me type it up for him), so from then on I was allowed to type up long answer and essay questions on a computer.
I got dysgraphia because Of some wrong exercise done to my fingers! My fingers start to shake and disfunction and I cannot write quickly and my hand writing is disaster. I need ur immediate help mam.
What do you call the opposite of dysgraphia? I can express my self better, more clearly, and more thoroughly when I'm writing than when I'm talking. When I talk I tend to lose track of where I'm trying to go with the conversation. I do have to concentrate very hard to write with a pen rather than typing though and my typing is faster, but not very accurate.
I'm the same (express myself better in writing than solely talking), but I still consider myself to have dysgraphia because my handwriting still sucks, even though I've been trying to work on it ever since 1st grade (I'm a few years past grad school now), but it was never diagnosed so I never got the help I needed, and when I did have to turn in handwritten work, it took me a really long time to write it because in order for it to be neat enough for the teacher/professor to read it, it takes me forever to write. All I can say is "thank goodness for computers" - had to handwrite one of my long essays in high school, and there ended up being several lines just whited out on one page because it's basically impossible to edit more than a word or two when writing on paper with pen without it looking like you edited. My typing isn't always accurate, either, but it's still far faster for me to do and easier for other people to read, so the editing time I have to take is worth it for me (one of my finals in college, the professor told us we had to handwrite a full essay in pen - he got quite a nasty shock when he came to mine and couldn't read a single word of it, because my handwriting was so bad; he ended up having me type it up, and from then on, I was allowed to use a computer to do long answer and essay questions on my midterms and finals, which saved my poor wrist big time, and cut the writing time almost in half because I was no longer having to take time whiting out or erasing a ton).
Weird!
Holy shit! I didn’t know there was a word for it! I have this, and I f*ck’n hate it!!! I can’t control my handwriting, I try to avoid it all together! But it’s hard to do so at times!!!
I can’t write the letter s and sometimes can’t write the number 3 it’s ass asf
Geeze, I'm just now for the very first time in my life ever, and I'm 50, just now learning that this is an actual condition. All my life I have hated and been ashamed of my hand writing. I was never diagnosed for this, but I am certain I have it, because my writing is so terrible and not on purpose.
Me, too! My sister has always teased me for it, and I remember back in 1st and 2nd grade (I was homeschooled 3rd-6th) when my teachers had us fill out the sheet of what we were going to work on during the semester, my mom always made me put "neatness" (meaning with regards to handwriting) because she thought I didn't try hard enough, when in fact, based on everything I've read in the last couple years, I'm now 99.99999% sure I actually have been dealing with dysgraphia to some extent ever since kindergarten (I could never hold the pencil the way the pencil grip tried to make me) and it never got caught because it's not as severe as some sources make it out to be (I've always been an excellent speller and never had trouble forming letters, so some of the apparently common causes of dysgraphia don't apply to me; I can also keep my lines of writing straight on lined paper, but on unlined paper it goes up and down and up and down). I can write really neat if I really try really really hard, but it's exhausting and it takes absolutely forever because the only way I can do it is to write super small, so if I have to turn in handwritten work, I only go so far as to make sure that I myself can read it (I often can't read my own writing) and call it good enough; even if I'm writing at my normal pace, it's still slower than "normal". If someone else is going to be reading my handwriting, I generally will - if I have the option - type it instead, because 1) it's just plain faster, 2) I can edit it super easily if I make a mistake or want to move words around, and 3) it's guaranteed to be legible no matter who's reading it (one of my college professors got a nasty shock when I turned in my final to him junior year - one of the things on it was we had to hand write an essay, in pen... yeah, he couldn't read a single word of mine, so he had me type it up for him, and I immediately sent an email off to my disability services coordinator at school to request to be allowed to use a computer for long answer questions and essays for midterms and finals in the future, which was promptly granted).
@@SnowySpiritRuby Thank You for sharing. I didn't think I'd ever get any responses to this. I have always had trouble writing and I often misread things and wind up making a fool of myself. There is a really good video on here about dysgraphia. This woman talks about growing up with it and everything she talked about I could relate 💯. I can't remember the name of it offhand. The thing that makes me mad is because we are not officially diagnosed with it. People will say you don't have it. You're self diagnosing. Well, I can't afford to get a diagnosis of it, and even if I could? Now it wouldn't do me any good, as I'm too old now to have this corrected. But like you. I too am 99.99999% I have it. My hand also hurts after trying to write more than a page and the paper absolutely has to be lined or forget it. Again Thanks for sharing that👍
@@ITIsFunnyDamnIT You're very welcome. I had been over on How To ADHD's channel, and something in one of her videos I was watching prompted me to look for videos on dysgraphia, and this just happened to be one of them.
Yeah, it's probably too late for me to try to fix it, too (I'm already a few years past grad school, and all the interventions I've read/heard about so far are all aimed at grade school kids), so on the rare occasions when it's absolutely necessary for it to be both legible and handwritten, I take the time to do my best (filling out checks and medical forms is honestly the majority of the handwriting I have to do, so not a lot at once - didn't have many tests in grad school that I had to hand write long answers for), and when it's not, either I don't care or I type it.
I'm now suspecting the reason my right hand and wrist hurt/cramp up when trying to write a lot, fast, or neatly, is due to more than just the fact that I partially dislocated my right wrist in 9th grade and it has never been the same since (I think I might have re-subluxed it by taking notes during my most recent first responder training course back in August, from writing an average of five or six 8.5"x11" pages of notes everyday for 9 days, because by the end of the second day it hurt so bad that I couldn't write without my wrist brace on).
@@SnowySpiritRuby Well I've never hurt my wrist, but my hand hurts if I have to write too much. Your injury may only be part of it. Mostly I just have to sometimes sign something or for a drs. etc. I think even in this video she said something about it being important to catch it when they are still young or they will run into problems later as adults. At least I think that was said in there. It's been awhile since I watched this one. The video is called living with dysgraphia my story. < that is a really good video that I can relate to so much. Only thing is I was never diagnosed for it but I was diagnosed with ADHD,. Anyway sorry for going on, but the video above I mentioned dis a good one.
@@ITIsFunnyDamnIT I very much suspect the injury is only part of it, because I had that issue long before I hurt it, the injury just made it worse.
I'll make sure to check it out. Thanks for the name of it.
I am an adult and still have bad handwriting. How can I get help with my problem. What classes do I need to take?
5s and 6's used to suck for me to write
I cant work also as CNC operator noe because lf Dysgraphia.
I also dont get sometimes what is someone trying to say to me....
i mean.... why i cant be 100% healthy....
I have trouble with expressing myself while writing, but I am familiar with letters
This is useful, my son's handwriting is not legible. Most of the time he makes basic spelling mistakes like amount will be written as "
ammount"
Mohammed Banda Ali Handwriting will never improve. Don’t make your son feel bad about it.
Mohammed Banda Ali holy shite that's not how it's spelled!?
Handwriting can improve. It's takes time. How people relate to a word also helps determine how much work is needed to correct a word.
thx
I can read im good at school but i have problems when it comes to spell a word cause i usually forget the letter
I'm a grown woman who has never gotten properly diagnosed with my struggles in writing. I've always just masked it as best as I can. Can anyone tell me who I can turn to to finally get help for this? I wouldn't be asking if it wasn't affecting me at my job.
I think I have this. The amount of times I’ve just starred blankly having no idea what to write. And constantly writing off the edge of the paper, not writing straight, missing a letter in a word, pressing so hard the paper rips, hand aching after just one paragraph
Personally I'm diagnosed with adhd but fit the traits for Dyspgraphia and dyspraxia I thought it was just because. i'm impulsive that I write to fast but then I realised I have a weird. Grip ,i'm clumsy,I miss Words and Numbers,.I have weird specing,I write kind of sloppy even though I really really try and even got into calligraphy to train. I 'm also very slow and have a Hard Time staying in between the lines etc and this annoys teachers.even in maths I write very disorganised and all Over the place . I also get crampings in My hand all the time. For dyspraxia i'm generally vad at sports and have had coordination, i learned to bike,swim and walk later than average and has trouble with it. I also have been told I walk/run/sit weirdly
I have adhd to always blamed that
How do I deal with being confined in a room and being beat regularly for a decade because I have dysgraphia?
I am 23 now and I have reached the final year of civil engineering course ..and I still have dysgraphia...it's very difficult for me to write during exam and test dispite knowing all the answers ...due to which I have low grade in my degree ...😭😭
I ended up getting an accommodation to be allowed to type up answers for my midterms and finals in college because the first time I had to hand write a long answer (prof insisted that the entire test had to be handwritten - in pen - including the 6-page essay), my professor couldn't read a single word of it.
Does typing things on a computer help? Do people with dysgraphia struggle with that too? Or is it just handwritten things?
its only handwriting
My teacher told me that the way I hold my pencil is ‘pretty unique’. But I wasn’t sure about it and I searched in google. But I found nothing. I kept on searching then I found an article saying about dysgraphia. It says people with dysgraphia had spelling mistakes sometimes and poor handwriting. I think I do have dysgraphia
I also hate having dysgraphia cos I keep crossing my mistakes out and it really annoys me
I had a tutor for reading and writing specially at 13 bc my dysgraphia and dyslexia was so bad. Math has always been ass too 😂
Well I have dyslexia real bad and I have a friend that has it and he wants me to help him
I 100% have it but my parents won't believe me they just say it's because I'm left-handed I can't even write 📝 its so scruffy 😭
i almost made it all the way through college without registering my disability. i finally had to because a professor found out i have dysgraphia and forced me to register (or he would fail me). After being done with school, its rarely an issue except for not being able to form sentences. the insane spelling errors are usually caught on the fly as i make them by whatever word processor i'm using. The other real downside is that i have to be able to see what i'm typing on screen. if i type without watching the letters appear, its a hilarious and illegible gibberish of letters
Mine is severe
When I was in primary, I had always a horrible handwriting, and I had this horrible "old school" teacher named Thelma that always was tormenting me for that by scolding me for having such an ugly handwriting, and tryin to make all our classes going on her rythm and with a nice handwriting (All of us being 2° freaking grade students), So, it was physically painful for me trying to keep her pace, because I really struggled with handwriting and on top of that I had to do it FAST.
Worst of all.
I was labeled as "a brilliant girl" because I had a higher than average IQ, so this teacher thought I just wasn't "trying hard enough". This woman really had an obsession on handwriting.
Daily humiliation for me at school.
I was so relieved when the next years I had other teachers!!
They always were like "Try to improve your handwriting", but they didn't forced me to write fast or used the methods that Thelma used, so I was content with them.
Curiously, I developed myself as a good artist, but my handwriting was still ugly.
It was until 6 grade when a classmate noticed that my mistake was that I made the strokes in the opposite direction when writing (not mirrored letters), and pointed it out to my 6° grade teacher... then my 6°th grade teacher told me to try to do the strokes in the other way, "Since you are good at drawing, try to not write the letters, just draw them" and my handwriting started to improve.
My handwriting improved A LOT in middle school, where no teache told me a thing about my handwriting.
I'm still slower than other at writing, and my hand still cramps when writing, but at least I don't have to write by hand on a daily basis. (Thank God for the computers)
I still hate writing by hand since my hand cramps when writing long texts or for prolonged periods of time by hand.
But I love drawing (and I do it very well)
Does having Dysgraphia make hard to read also
Very sorry this reply is late. But to answer your question it is said that most people who have dyslexia also have one or more other learning disability's.
I have dyslexia and had a very difficult time in school but I never knew about dysgraphia until last week (and I am 48). I just thought my hand writing was sloppy and that's all there was to it.
I downloaded an audiobook called Understanding Dyslexia by The Center for Excellence and this has been eye-opening for me, and I have lived with these conditions for a long time.
So yes, if someone has dysgraphia there is a good chance they have something else too. I do and this book will discuss all of those issues. I highly recommend it.
Hope you find your answers.
Yes, I can't read most words others read.
If you mean make it hard to read your own handwriting, then yes, it definitely can (half the time when I go back to something I've handwritten, I have to puzzle over it to figure out what I wrote).
If you mean make it hard to read in general, then no, not necessarily - it definitely can, and sometimes does, co-occur with things like dyslexia, but it doesn't have to: my handwriting has always been terrible but I've never had trouble with my actual ability to read.
I’m in 6th grade yet I still write bad I hate dysgraphia 😢
As a kid I never had trouble with spelling or putting letters in order but I had and still have shitty handwriting. Could some people just have shitty handwriting?
That is me 6th grade dysgraphia ☹️ bc I’m in 6th grade
Yeah I have dysgraphia and it's hard
Thank the cybergods for text, keyboards and audiobooks, because no matter how many hours of coaching, tutoring, and spelling lessons I slogged through, my handwriting has been completely terrible, takes a long time, and physically hurts my hand because every letter is like drawing lines, forcing marks onto the paper just to be legible... I only learned there's a word for this LITERALLY today. That fact just shows how damned and deeply ablist this messed up society is.
Are you doing better now, or the same? Have you ever tried writing with your finger in the air or in sand? Writing with a pen shouldn't feel much worse than that. I hope you have seen improvement.
It is a messed up society because no one knows or understands this esoteric disorder?
look I almost cried when I found out I had this cause I thought I was stupid for never being able to spell correctly, but I absolutely do not fault society for not making room for me or catering to my disability. in fact, because I had to deal with it for so long I have actually been able to overcome most of my issues I would have hated to make others go out of their way to accommodate me. all I need to understand some of my limitations to be able to work around them without thinking I'm being lazy or stupid and ill be fine.
i just found out i have this today after 14 years! damn no wonder why i write so bad and cant spell anything!
I think my sister has this. She writes her E's, R's and many other letters backwards. And usually she only writes in capitals. She usually does not notice till I point it out.
Ariella The Dragon I used to write letters and some numbers backwards too, and usually write in all capitals because I struggle to distinguish between upper and lower case so there's often a confusing mixture of upper and lower letters throughout a single word. I'm perfectly fine when typing but hand writing anything is extremely nerve-wracking and difficult for me. I'm in my late 20s and only just discovered dysgraphia is a thing! I sure wish I'd known when I was in school. I hope you are supportive of your sister and helping her discover if she has dysgraphia or not
I can write sideways and it kind of gets better, but it's still "not good enough" for my teachers.
Where does dysgraphia and dyslexia separate? This seems to cross over with dyslexia a lot…. Urgh! I’m confused!
I’m already diagnosed dyslexic, dyspraxic and handing dyscalculia. This is too much man I have too many labels. Need something like autism spectrum but a dyslexi spectrum or something….
I was told dysgraphia is about accuracy of using a pen not getting mixed up with writing direction and forgetting what letter you’re writing mid letter. I do all that but I just assume it’s dyslexia? Like forms are impossible if I’m not misspelling it I’m randomly writing the wrong letter or crossing L like it’s a t, forget what way around 5 and 7 are. Often forget what letter I’m writing mid letter, like make N a M, write e for a, or just not even write a letter at all, start it and get confused mid way and scribble it out in frustration to start over again.
Paper forms give me anxiety.
I am extremely accurate with a pen when drawing things tho, I’m great at art so I assumed I can’t have dysgraphia - I only struggle holding a pen and making a shape if it’s a specific symbol like a letter or number. Sometimes logos and punctuation are hard to draw/write for me too.
But I could draw a pretty flower easily with nice smooth outlines. Draw anything, a like an elephant from memory, a skull, a human face from the side or front easily. Can draw hands, can draw cartoon dogs all with no reference, but I cannot write fully in caps because I’ll go lower case and write the wrong letters. Go diagonal and have to stop to remember writing goes left to right, but not those words cos I have to stop to remember what that means.
Is it the case most dyslexics al have dysgraphia as part of being dyslexic or something?
I can’t keep looking to add to my list, I just wanna call it “dyslexic as fuck” and move on bleeeeegh
I don’t want to fix my disgrafia. This is part of me and if you take that away then I won’t be who I am today
Remembering the time my teacher screamed and yelled cause I was in 6th grade and still wrote worse than a 7 year old then found out I had extreme dysgraphia
My natural handwriting is awful but if i slow it right down, its pretty neat and legible. During exams I'd have one paragraph done and everyone else would be on page two of their answer. I managed to get enough down for a "D' or an "E" grade. I always felt like my folks were very disappointed in me. Especially since my older brother was an A student. So in my 50s I found out I have ADHD. He's wealthy now, probably a millionaire on paper. I work with Autism and young adults with learning difficulties. I won't get rich but I can relate with them and they like me. But it doesn't pay well at all. I hate ADHD but at least i understand a bit better.
I can read pretty well, my comprehension skills are horrible I am 32 years
Have you studied adults with this disability
Graffiti art
Dysgraphia and being left handed is no fun at all.